I can't argue with that list, whatever Bob lifted from civil war poets
(so what? as others have remarked) - and I haven't even heard the new
Lucinda Williams yet (still reeling from WWT), though I might choose
Elvis Costello or Gillian Welch instead of Joni Mitchell.
mj
Joseph Duemer wrote:
> The only recent Cohen album I haven't liked is Dear Heather. I think
> Ten New
> Songs, The Future & this new Blue Alert are all fine. There's only one
> clunker on Blue Alert, but I leave it to you to find it. Anjani's voice
> seems the perfect vehicle.
>
> Neil Young's lyrics are often appalling, I think: Portentous claptrap,
> romantic sap, bad & I mean really bad rhymes. But when he sings them with
> Crazyhorse, it all makes perfect sense to me.
>
> In the spirit of Hornby's novel, which is full of Top Five Lists, here
> are
> my top five contemporary pop lyricists:
>
> 1. Bob Dylan
> 2. Tom Waits
> 3. Joni Mitchell
> 4. Leonard Cohen
> 5. Lucinda Williams
>
> jd
>
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